MATH 1040 - Introduction to Statistics

Lesson 3.3 Blind Studies

Reading

Reading sections are from the Introductory Statistics Textbook

• 1.5.3 Randomized Experiments (pages 32-34)

Lesson

• Blind Study: When researchers keep the patients uninformed about their treatment (They don’t know whether they are in the Control Group or the Treatment Group)
• Placebo: A fake treatment to keep subjects from knowing which group they are in